It takes Americans a long time to digest

Now that the Dems are being frightened off the subject by the polls (there are at least two now) showing that Americans support Bush on the NSA spying program by 2 to 1, Glenn Greenwald has some sober advice:

The whole point of having political leaders and pundits is to articulate a point of view and provide support for that view in order to persuade Americans of its rightness. That process changes public opinion on every issue, all of the time, often dramatically. None of that has occurred here. Let's have a few days of debate over whether Americans actually want the Government to maintain a permanent data base of every call they make and receive -- to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their doctors and lawyers, their psychiatrists and drug counsellors. And let's have a debate about whether the law prohibts this program. And then let's see where public opinion is.